LeaP class unveils new downtown signage
- May 18, 2015
- / Staff Reports
- / community-dashboard
Leadership Pensacola Class of 2015 will host an unveiling of its class project, rehabbing the wayfinding signs in downtown Pensacola, on May 19.
New Cantonment Resource Center dedicated today
- May 18, 2015
- / Staff Reports
- / video
After more than one year of work, the Cantonment Improvement Committee will see a community resource center dedicated at Carver Park this afternoon.
Clash over after-school programs coming back
- May 18, 2015
- / Margie Menzel
- / education
The bill was primarily aimed at tightening a law passed last year to reform the child-welfare system. But Sobel added an amendment that dealt with state oversight of local after-school programs with national affiliations --- such as the Boys and Girls Clubs and the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts --- and would require staff and volunteers of such groups to meet background-screening requirements through the Department of Children and Families.
Your summer at a glance
- May 16, 2015
- / Staff Reports
- / community-dashboard
From flying fish to the Blue Angels, Visit Pensacola releases its list of top summer events in the Pensacola Bay Area.
Lawmakers to return June 1, face health care issues
- May 16, 2015
- / Jim Saunders
- / government
Shannon's Window: How latch-key kids can help boomers see the light
- May 16, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / early-learning
The generation gap is showing itself in workers frustration with work-life balance issues. Thanks Baby Boomers for messing things up again.
Mental health, early education reform will wait until 2016
- May 16, 2015
- / Margie Menzel
- / early-learning
Advocates for children, families look to 2016 to again push reforms in the mental health and early education systems in Florida.
Scott raises specter of government shutdown
- May 15, 2015
- / Brandon Larrabee
- / government
Gov. Rick Scott says health care budget impasse could lead to government shutdown if lawmakers cannot reach an agreement by the end of June.
Growlers make the cut
- May 15, 2015
- / Jim Turner
- / community-dashboard
Gov. Rick Scott signed 27 bills into law Thursday, including legalizing growlers, targeting speed traps and taking aim at "revenge porn."